National day sails overseas

The Golden Week is becoming a time to celebrate New China's founding - by traveling abroad, largely to shop. Yang Feiyue reports.

This year's weeklong National Day holiday became international vacation time for a record number of Chinese mainlanders.

Outbound tourism during the holiday that ended Oct 7 surged 14 percent to over 4 million overseas travelers this year, Shanghai-based tourism-consulting service Gold Palm reports.